NEW BOOK Saint Luke's, Rathgar

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As New First Edition Hardback on St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Dublin .

For more than fifty years St Luke's hospital, in the leafy Dublin suburb of Rathgar, has been caring for cancer victims from all over Ireland.

Hundreds of thousands of patients and their families have experienced the special care that the hospital and its staff have provided.

A Haven in Rathgar is the story of how strong personalities and implacable practicalities inside and outside shaped St Luke's. What resulted is a high-tech hospital with an international reputation, the only on specialising in cancer in Ireland.

Using memoirs and contemporary

records, the book also describes the

patients' experience of cancer, and

society's slowly evolving response to

'the dread disease'.